WITCH 1: In the poison'd entrails throw.—

Toad, that under cold stone,

Days and nights has thirty-one;

Sweltered venom sleeping got,

Boil thou first in the charmed pot!

ALL: Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

WITCH 2: Fillet of a fenny snake,

In the caldron boil and bake;

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,

Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,

Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,

Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

ALL: Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

WITCH 3: Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;

Witches' mummy; maw and gulf (maw=mouth, gulf=throat)

Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;

Root of hemlock digged in the dark;

Liver of blaspheming Jew;

Gall of goat, and slips of yew (yew=bush with poison berries)

Slivered in the moon's eclipse;

Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;

Finger of birth-strangled babe

Ditch-delivered by a drab,— (drab=bad woman)

Make the gruel thick and slab:

Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, (chaudron=guts, entrails)

For the ingredients of our caldron.

ALL: Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

WITCH 2: Cool it with a baboon's blood,

Then the charm is firm and good.

—William Shakespeare